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That's great! Thank you. £8 is certainly better than £20 odd. These things must cost pennies to make, why they don't include them with the main unit is rather irritating. Still, at least the discount code posted by Barry will pay for the dongle
The best dongle is a 'Homeplug'. I find Wifi to be quite poor for streaming HD. Homeplugs 'just work' and are trouble free.
They don't just work for everyone. At lot depends on how your house is wired. If the transmitter and receiver are both on the same ring main they should work just fine. If they happen to be on different ring mains and have to transmit via the consumer unit, they can be very slow or fail to work at all. If you happen to be mega-rich and live in a very large property and have ring mains on different phases they are even more problematic. Probably work just fine for most but certainly not everyone. Same for WiFi, how good it is depends on your property and what sort of router you have. A modern ac router with beam forming can provide fast wireless transfers to points lesser routers cannot reach. A USB extension lead can often allow a dongle to be mounted in a spot that works a lot better than buried in a HiFi rack or under a TV.
I think as a proportion of the population those who might encounter problems will be infinitesimally small though.
I have both the Apple Extreme router and a HH5 both multi-frequency i.e. 5 MHz I get just about maximum signal in most rooms and yet our microwave oven can bring either to their knees and as said before HD streaming can stutter, especially if you try to fast forward. Homeplugs - no such issue.
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